Dutch Design Week #2

While travelling from Strijp R to the 'Klokgebouw' on Strijp S on our first day visiting the DDW we passed the 'Torenallee'. An industrial area with lots of workspaces for designers, interior shops like Yksi Expo and the Ontdekfabriek, where kids can build their own design from left-over materials (also open every week of the year on wednesday and sunday!).

We visited the Dutch Design Awards exposed at the Gerard building and the exhibition of 'Hier is Utrecht', while falling in love with the soft cabinets made from foam rubber by Dewi van der Klomp. 'Hier is Utrecht' is a designers collective from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten having there design projects exposed at the cool Skate Park AREAFIFTYONE during the Dutch Design Week.

Area51 is located at the 'Ketelhuisplein', a rough area with beautiful graffiti-walls, also containing an original Lois shop and great restaurants like Radio Royaal where we had dinner.
Radio Royaal is situated in a former Philips energy factory. Such an impressive building and such a great interior with lots of styling details. Feeling sorry I couldn't make pictures of it because of the evening light. Which is a nice excuse to come back soon :)

Dutch Design Week #1

The Dutch Design Week, every year 9 days of design, art, interior, and most of all lots of inspiration in Eindhoven. In 2012 I couldn't join this great event, so happy to be there 2 days this year: walking around, making pictures, acquiring inspiration. Visiting Strijp R, Strijp S, the 'Klokgebouw', 'Hier is Utrecht', the Dutch Design Award, the Design Academy Graduation Show at the 'Witte Dame', the exhibition at the 'Van Abbe Museum', the inner city, Crowdy House and dining at Radio Royaal. Happy to share the inspiration in some posts the coming week.
Like sharing our visit at Piet Hein Eek and Ontwerpduo on this first day of my DDW-posts.
I truly love the Piet Hein Eek spot on Strijp-R, with new initiatives like Social Label, an exhibition of Anton Beeke, It's a miracle and the PHE-bench developed in cooperation with Freitag.
A great place to stay and have lunch (not only on DDW-days!).
Buying a neon pink tallow developed by Ontwerpduo, who were having an open house on the PHE-area during the DDW. Showing their designs like the great cageling, rockid and light forest. Not buying one of the tallows of their great standard color collections, but a try-out. Sharing a picture of it the coming days.

And so nice to travel between the different DDW spots with the Mini Design Rides :)

kids room: color splash

Although most of the time I prefer a basic white interior, also for kids. I was stunned by this colorful kidsroom: the green floor match with a pink rug, the flowery wallpaper, the mix of pillows on the bench made of pallets and lots of lovely decoration details.

source: woonblog

kids room: storage styling

We have a crush on LEGO. 

Floor really likes his LEGO train a lot, Pip started collecting LEGO friendz for girls and I immediately fell for the great storage products designed by Room Copenhagen, like the LEGO storage brick. 

So great to actually have one in Floor's room now.

You can buy this great storage brick at Fonq, an online store also selling interior products. 

Fonq sells the LEGO storage brick in different sizes and colors and you can actually build with them like real LEGO stones.

We chose the black one for Floor's room to store his railroad tracks and are dreaming about a white or pink one in Pip's room.

I also decided to store Floor's Schleich animals in a creative way, inspired by a picture on Pinterest. We bought shelves at IKEA and I even managed to hang them myself. 

So nice to see his collection exposed this way. 

And after painting a wall army green it really felt like a real kidsroom make-over.

finca love

I have a crush on this Spanish finca: the concrete floor, the basic white and grey walls and styling. 

With some accessories I used to sell in my webshop like the horse swing, the tire basket and the crochet stool cover. Realizing I miss my creative job sometimes....

The Finca Pura Vida is a B&B in Benissa run by a dutch family. Such a great place to spent your holidays!

Pictures by Marjon Hoogervorst, styling by Anouk B for 101woonideeen (issue august 2012)

(pop-up) shop design

pop-up store Berlin

pop-up store Berlin

Voo Store Berlin

K-MB showroom Berlin

K-MB showroom Berlin

Such a creative and minimalistic design for a pop-up store. Inspired by shipping boxes and designed for a pop-up shop for Zalando in Berlin. The units can be moved and positioned everywhere in the shop but also re-used.

Love the concept!

Designed by Sigurd Larsen, a Danish architect living in Berlin and developing such great projects and furniture!

source: frameweb for even more inspiration!

crush on pink neon

I've always had a crush on pink in my interior. Not to much, but just a small touch.

So I adore this great styling in the dutch interior magazine VTwonen by Frans Uyterlinde with pictures by Jansje Klazinga. 

Having plans to repaint the pink wall on Pip's room with silver-metallic paint, I think I'm going to add some neon pink details :)

blog inspiration: family stuff

A great french family home with lots of inspiring styling details.
Found on The Socialite Family. An online place to wander around in lots of family homes around the world.